science

You're stance is literally just anti-establishment with no original conjectures. You're discourse is worthless for furthering physics. Rather than propel the field forward, your dialog exists only to attack current progress and cause hesitation.

If you actually came up with a single testable claim, even if immediately refuted by evidence, you still would have contributed more to scientific discourse than your rant did just now.

Science is about finding the best answers for the questions we get from our observations about the world. We do not throw out these answers, no matter how bizarre and unwanted they may be, if they fit the evidence we have. We only seek better ones as we go.

So-called open platforms like this have no credibility though if anyone can (anonymously)

You miss the point of the fediverse so much so that I almost feel it's deliberate.

You can make your own community and post there as much as you like (you're the moderator). If your instance admins don't like it sign up somewhere else and continue!

If you don't see the value in this over reddit/other corporate social media then I don't know what to tell you.

A lot of people may still disagree with your views/content but that doesn't deplatform you! You can always have a space here. This should excite you.

my attempt is to balance the perspective of what has become polemic, faith-based scientific dogma completely divorced from fact with some kind of reality-based reasoning and investigation.

I believe this reveals a real lack of understanding of how modern science is done. I’ve heard similar complaints about scientists being blinded by orthodoxy from anti-vaxxers, climate change deniers, and from people promoting their alternate models of physics (e.g. “everything is made of photons”). In every case the complaint is based on their own ideological blindness, misunderstanding of the science, or both.

The idea that scientists are unwilling to interrogate modern theories or entertain alternatives is ridiculous. The most interesting results aren’t those that reaffirm the standard model or expectations, it’s those that are in conflict with our best understanding of reality. These are the observations and theories that reveal new physics. This is the stuff of Nobel prizes.

Searches for physics beyond the standard model are commonplace; physics conferences generally have at least a few sections devoted to them. There are large collaborations doing experiments that search for physics that’s inconsistent with the standard model, for example searches for neutrinoless double beta decay or the neutron electric dipole moment.

Even experiments that ultimately reaffirm the standard model began as attempts to interrogate it and discover things that challenge it. At the LHC, Atlas and CMS both observed the Higgs boson and found its properties were consistent with the standard model. If you talk with any of the physicists involved, they were actually disappointed that no new physics was observed. This was the most boring possible result.

I am astonished how vicious the hoi polloi is

Maybe if you weren't consistently snooty and rude while promoting your scientific conspiracy theories, people would be more tolerant. But the theories still wouldn't be good.

Going to recommend my edit to make sure you see it. I like this place and I think you will too.

point is communities still have mods (and admins of the host instance) but if you're not happy with how they run things you can make your own community (or even instance) and we'll still be able to see it and interact.

The moderator of that community came to that conclusion. You could try messaging them.

4. Lemmy.world isn't really, but notice how I'm not signed up there?

Edit:I guess you aren't either. But the point is communities still have mods (and admins of the host instance) but if you're not happy with how they run things you can make your own community (or even instance) and we'll still be able to see it and interact.